LLM Inevitabilism: The 'Inevitability' Trap and the Engineer's Identity Crisis
The debate you lost before you opened your mouth Have you ever argued with someone who is seriously good at debating? I have. It sucks. You get thrown off balance over and over, forced to respond to a point you never saw coming. You find yourself defending the weak edges of your argument while the main thrust has already been abandoned somewhere behind you. Then you lose momentum, lose confidence, and eventually, the argument.
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LLMs Reward Expertise: Why Deep Domain Knowledge Matters More as AI Gets Smarter
The old CSS gap and the new backend gap Back in the 2010s, if you had a skill gap - say, you couldn’t write CSS - you had exactly two options: lean on a more skilled colleague, or pray someone had posted the answer to your precise problem on Stack Overflow.
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Comparing TinyFish and Firecrawl: Which Search Engine for AI Agents?
Last week, I spent time optimizing a bot that collects menu information from restaurants around Hóc Môn. To get the agent to navigate through Cloudflare’s defenses, handle Single Page Apps (SPAs) flooded with JavaScript, and parse HTML garbage into clean markdown for LLM to consume, I spent a considerable amount of credit on Firecrawl. Feeling thrifty, I tried switching to TinyFish - a new emerging name that promises completely free Search and Fetch (0 credit).
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